Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...return to power by the Khmer Rouge, who killed nearly 2 ! million of their countrymen between 1975 and 1979. Now, with the Vietnamese preparing to pull out of that tortured country and the U.S. pondering whether to send new American arms to guerrillas in the countryside, the Administration could end up compounding both the danger for Kampuchea and the disgrace...
Under Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, the U.S. gave priority to evicting the Vietnamese troops, who invaded Kampuchea a decade ago. But to that end, Washington backed an unholy alliance of resistance forces, linking two non- Communist groups with the Khmer Rouge. Those genocidal ultra-Maoists are the best organized and best armed of the guerrillas, not to mention the most ruthless. So there has always been the possibility that they would come out on top after the Vietnamese withdrew...
...April 5, Viet Nam finally announced that it would pull its troops out of Kampuchea by the end of September, leaving behind a pro-Hanoi regime. The decision presented the Bush Administration with a chance to turn, unambiguously, to preventing the Khmer Rouge from moving into power. Instead, the Administration is now giving priority to bringing down the Communist regime that the Vietnamese installed in Phnom Penh -- though that regime seems to be rebuilding the country...
...more civil war after the Vietnamese pull out. With their record, the Khmer Rouge can hardly be expected to submit to elections or to participate in a peaceful democracy. If they and the non- Communists remain aligned against the Phnom Penh leaders, the three- against-one combination will probably end in the defeat of the odd faction out; that will allow the Khmer Rouge to turn their guns on the other...
...abortion would almost certainly result in a further increase in the already high rate of illegitimate births -- now at 23% of American children born each year -- and teenage pregnancies. Taxpayers would end up footing the bill for some of that; half of all welfare payments go to women who gave birth as teenagers. Pro-lifers maintain that the dimensions of the problem would be smaller than many fear, because banning abortion would encourage people to be more cautious about sex. "Once the law tells us that abortion is illegal, there will be far fewer pregnancies to abort," insists Dr. John...